sicker — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Certain.

   Examples

   I'm sicker that he's not home.

2. Secure; safe.

   Examples

   To walk a sicker path

   But ſicker ſo it is, as the bꝛight ſtarre / Seemeth ay greater, when it is farre:

   More examples (2)

   And here was we made sicker than he was wi' you[…]

   I'm as great on the side o' the law as it's siccar to be in thae uncertain times.

Adverb

1. Certainly.

2. Securely.

Verb

1. To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.

   Usage

   • Figurative
   • Intransitive

   Examples

   No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth.

   This cause had sickered into his soul; it had been branded upon his forehead somehow, by some hand; he knew not how nor by whom.

   More examples (1)

   The solution steadily sickered through the debris and the sampling of the solutions could be carried out without taking the equipment into pieces.